March 7
We spent most of the day fixing the gooseneck connection for the boom - all but 1 screw had come out where the gooseneck attaches to the mast and the boom was about ready to come free, but luckily we found it in time and spent several hours at the mast putting the boom back on - hopefully the screws hold. We'll have to keep an eye on that each day to make sure they aren't working back out. Of course the vang is still not fixed completely and the boom coming loose caused that fix to come apart too so we basically have the boom tied down at this time. But we have a pretty good idea how to fix it once we hit a larger island, may not be until Tahiti.
After that we spent a few hours setting up the whisker pole, then furling and resetting on the port side. Then we pulled it down and are currently under main and genoa alone. So - most of the day was on the bow and at the mast - a change from the usual day at sea where most time is spent in the cockpit.
We had a little squid on the deck this morning, and some ink from another on the cabin top, the little ones apparently jump on at night much like flying fish. We had a few squalls last night, just rain and a bit of extra wind, nothing serious.
2476 miles to go,
Pauline